if you purchasing consumer herbal supplements then you are part of the
five billion dollar-a-year American market for them but after this video you
might second-guess continuing doing that
I a Canadian group tested forty four different bottles a popular supplements
different herbal supplements
sold by 12 different companies and they have the results they did this technique
called
but genetic fingerprinting its DNA barcoding basically they look for these
genetic
fingerprints on the different substances and they can figure out what in it and
what not it
and that what they've got knows that all too often up to 30 the time
what it says is on the bottle is not actually in there and many things it
does not say on the bottle
or in fact inside a bit things are generally they found that
pills labeled as popular herbs were often deluded or replaced entirely
buy cheap fillers like soybean week and rice
and to give you some specific examples so out two bottles labeled as saint
john's work which studies have shown may treat mild depression
contained none other than the disorder but instead the pills and one bottle
were made up nothing but rice
in another bottle contained only Alexandrine Cena an Egyptian yellow
shrub that is a powerful laxative
yeah a lot of things that cause flatulence and and rashes some things
that could
they can cause severe allergic reactions it's not even on the the label
no what I love this help maliciousness play
guys make a mistype site all right now I don't know if mcenroe
give them anything you know it we're gonna fuck with murder all yeah
are some great stuff man I get really to put some popularized with them
but the ego and extra step to Miley
let's make this shit up a storm way this though some laxatives in there all the
other institutional yeah
x8 Johns wart yeah you're depressed and you have the shits I
yeah lol I mean a lot of people I think most people understand that you can't
necessarily trust these label say that a lot of people they see them as like
being like B-twelve it says that the item in
I did anything is all this story yeah it was a soccer than
this is following many previous studies indicated that what's on the label might
not actually be in there but is the first when using a DNA barcoding which
is much more precise than actually provides proof that these things are
in or not in them and so %uh what people might be surprised to find out is that
while
most medicines most actual drugs that are sold as medicine
need to be shown and proven to the FDA that they are safe and that they
actually do what they claim to do
the supplements are not in there was a 1994 law in fact that said that
unless you can show that they're dangerous in some way
%uh like a consumer Saikat you sell them you know the PRU that has anything
despite all this claim in the back in the bottle
nobody reads a pays attention to and you can sell now it's okay corporations
always naturally do the right thing yes yep so they'll even say that there's
like 30
self-reporting will happen you if they don't do the right thing then
then the word I'll get out no one will buy their product and will go bankrupt
and that Howard
yeah the libertarian bragging rights what Iran's yeah that's right and then
has all those libertarians are shooting up a storm
I bring markets going right through me
I okay look I never believed any other stuff I mean you re some the labels I
found it hilarious like 10
my once read somebody gonna go get something executive getting sick and I
was like
like week you would find a native american plane amid
ignored I on a plane I mean yes I
what is what is that a and it is very different I debated complaint
I never believed any other stuff except I miss I'm also soccer
and I know I am but I do I don't know I get like I do airport
right so that's a different kind apply I know I have no idea
with what I have made a huge losses you know him well no
it makes me feel better I like that you know he is seeing its I feel like I'm
doing something
I was going to sit there naked you know so well and it was invented by Imam see
no it's good yeah
doctors you have a better way w/ lefties I know I'm being an idiot when I use it
well I used to buy these things the because I first moved to LA you know
it's very overwhelming and I did take us out should provide a year
and so I I used to take these have
pills that they're like little capsules uva hot pepper things whatever cap see
in these column whatever
and that was shown to life the spur help your digestive sys ice the pop those all
time I wonder what with as probably more so about a shit for all year
because I was all black today I how do I thought it was cuz I was anxious
but it turns out taken is cramming yet though %uh
so don't worry though tested stepped on gap nerves the chief science officer for
the American botanical Council which is a nonprofit group that Kercher's you to
use these new tire
supplement says: overall I would agree the quality controls and issue in their
bill industry
but I think that once represented here is overblown I don't think it's as bad
as it looks according to the study
on if I'm paying like eighteen dollars for pills that are filled up with rice
I I feel like there's an issue in america well then they're not
identifying the exact Brians because they don't want to receive a massive lot
of pushback from lawyers
but this is a big problem and nothing is going to be done about this I would
assume
ok walls of course it was gonna be like on another cause those companies
a ton of money and I and hence I won't get any political donations from
you know others like out what to protect consumers
in america who you think what do you think we have a democracy
know nobody cares in the bill run amok and showing my consumer donor list
worth picking alright I I don't have one of those hacer 60 years women do about
this
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